Re: dia segfault when exporting with builtin eps converter

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 7 Nov 2003, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> [guillaume durruti presentation]$ dia --export-to-format=eps-builtin 
> schema_general.dia
> -> segfault
> [guillaume durruti presentation]$ dia -e schema_general.eps
> schema_general.dia
> -> works
>
> What is really weird, however, is that it fails 100% on one of my box,
> but only 80% only on another. Both are running cooker (mandrake
> experimental distribution) with almost same upgrade level. dia version is
> 0.92.2 in both cases.

Can you send me the diagram you're trying to export?  Converting N
different diagrams with 0.92.2 eps-builtin hasn't given me a single crash.
You may also want to check what the versions of the required libraries are
(especially freetype2 can give trouble).

> BTW, this eps thingie should really get more advertised, it has made me
> almost insane with my latex-generated pdf slides...

It's in the man page and on the web site.  Where else should it go?

-Lars

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